SILK TRAINS RUN RACES WITH TIME; Precious Cargoes, Their Value Fluctuating With Quotations, Beat Passenger Expresses From Pacific to New York by Nearly a Day

CLEAR the tracks for a silk train." This message flashed across the continent is the signal for a race, a race of locomotives against the hands of the clock. In American business, time is reckoned in dollars and cents, and especially when the fluctuating value of a single cargo in transit is million's of dollars.

September 26, 1926

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